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The votes have been counted and the winners in this year’s DJ Mag of British Awards have been announced

This year marked the 13th edition of DJ Mag's Best Of British awards, our annual celebration of UK talent. Positioned as a counter-balance to the...

Nemzzz announces debut mixtape, ‘DO NOT DISTURB’

The debut mixtape is set to drop next month

Nemzzz has announced the release of his debut mixtape, ‘DO NOT DISTURB’, and dropped a new track, ‘L'S'. Slated for release on 15th March, the...

Premiere: Kundai ’Seance’

Kundai debuts on Human Pitch with three percussive, vocal-led club rollers

Kundai will release a new EP via NYC-and-Mexico City label Human Pitch this month. Listen to ‘Seance’ below. The Zimbabwe-born, London-based DJ, producer, vocalist, art...

Premiere: Nathalie Capello ‘Wanna Be’

Nathalie Capello debuts on Dansu Discs with four otherworldly house stompers

Nathalie Capello will release her debut EP, ‘Fading Dreams’, via Manchester’s Dansu Discs this month. Listen to ‘Wanna Be’ below. The Rotterdam-born, Berlin-based DJ –...

The statue is located in the New York Borough of Queens

A solar powered statue of LL Cool J is on display in New York.

Currently installed at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, the Bronze...

The Sound Of: Love On The Rocks

Always ahead of the curve, Paramida’s Love On The Rocks has been injecting prog, trance, Italo and more back into the underground for the past decade, building a loyal following of record buyers and partygoers along the way. Alongside a mix from its catalogue, Henry Ivry learns more

“If it looks like there is a line connecting everything I’ve done, there isn’t,” producer, DJ, and label boss Paramida tells us, laughing. “I have...

Rachael Williams, aka Ambient Babestation Meltdown, compiles an hour of obscure TV samples and leftfield techno, rave and '80s German punk for the Fresh Kicks...

Juke Bounce Werk co-founder, Alexis Gutierrez — aka DJ Noir — explores how language can be used to appropriate Black culture and leave behind its...

We have been forced to address the elephant in the room.In light of historic current events, the dance music community has been forced to reflect...

The melodic deep house of Maya Jane Coles’ ‘What They Say’ helped put her on the map, and soon went on to be sampled by...

Even if you’ve never consciously set out to listen to ‘What They Say’ by Maya Jane Coles, you’ve almost certainly heard it before. Over the...

Bristol’s Livity Sound label has crafted a distinctive style and sonic blueprint, drawing from dub techniques but impossible to categorise. Celebrating a decade in existence...

In 2011, the dust from the dubstep explosion was still up in the air. The initial UK wave had split between a formulaic festival sound...

Dapz by Andy Lowe

After well over a decade in the game, Birmingham rapper Dapz on the Map drops his debut album ‘Landed’ in October. He speaks to DJ Mag about how grime has matured and embracing the emotional vulnerability of his lyrics

“That’s why you’re a spitter and I’m an artist,” Birmingham’s Dapz on the Map declared on his chest-puffing SBTV debut way back in 2009, shelling...

Fort Romeau press shot

For his first album in nearly seven years, Fort Romeau drew inspiration from past eras, and places that have lingered in his imagination. But, he says, he never lets nostalgia be a stylistic trap

It’s easy talking to Michael Greene. The English beat maker, best known as Fort Romeau, speaks in calm tones — warm, inviting and thoughtful, like...

When the Covid-19 pandemic cleared Dutch producer, DJ and label boss Martyn’s diary, he turned his attention to others: starting his own mentoring programme for...

Martyn has spent the last 25 years making electronic music, but the Dutch artist still remembers his earliest days keenly. “I started in drum &...

In the UK grime scene, the spotlight has usually shone on MCs. Instrumentals have long remained a niche point of interest, a topic for more...

Who are the producers shaping the sounds of UK rap and grime right now? 2019 seems as good a time as any to be considering...

Photo of NikNak beneath a blue, pink and purple spotlight

Turntablist NikNak has a unique style, cutting and scratching field recordings and samples into ambient tracks — but her latest album finds her leaning into the dance music you might hear in one of her club sets. Ben Murphy speaks to her about Afrofuturist sci-fi, trip-hop, pop, and why she loves found sounds

DJ, turntablist and producer NikNak approaches the decks differently. The Leeds-based artist’s debut album, ‘Bashi’, released in 2020, found her using turntables to manipulate field...